Panel Methods for Finance

Financial data are typically characterised by a time-series dimension and a cross-sectional dimension. For example, we may observe financial information on a group of firms over a number of years, or we may observe returns of all stocks traded at NYSE over a period of 120 months. Accordingly, econometric modelling in finance requires appropriate attention to these two -- or occasionally more than two -- dimensions of the data. Panel data techniques are developed to do exactly this. This book provides an overview of commonly applied panel methods for financial applications.